You Revive Me

Mariah had been on duty for the past 32 hours. She had little to no sleep and God knows when was the last time she ate because even she does not remember eating anything except a chocolate protein bar during her round break.

Being a doctor is already exhausting but being a resident is worst of all. The only thing that’s been keeping her alive is her colleague and best friend Blaire and maybe some coffee too that she has been devouring for the past 3 hours. It’s not like she doesn’t love her job. She loves it. It’s what she has been wanting to do her whole life.

She always thought of herself as a side character. Not having fair skin or a perfect body, just a brunette with pitch-black eyes and a bunny smile. Sometimes she would have to wear glasses to look a little mature as her baby face was of no help. She may not be the main character we see in movies but she’s kind. Yes, she’s kind and humble. She always envied those girls in the movies who had everyone head over heels for them but she knew that if she had to be likeable she needed to be kind.

She never had someone who loved her truly. Her parents were busy always busy fighting and her sister never cared for her. She was bullied by others for being fat when she was young. She tried to loose weight and achieved but the trauma was still there and even after everything she had gone through, she never complained nor did she blame or was rude to anyone. She’s a great doctor who worked her ass off to get where she is right now but at this moment, she’s just a human with no sleep and just wants to go home. After an hour, she is allowed to leave.

“I cannot wait to go home ,have a shower and then go straight to bed,” Mariah speaks with excitement in her voice.

“Don’t forget to eat before going to bed. You’ve been chugging down that coffee for too long.”, Blaire says with concern.

“Yes, I will make sure of that! Now off I go and off you go too. Now it’s your time to chug that coffee down your throat”, Mariah says with a grin on her face.

She knows that Blaire is on the night shift today and will be handling everything alone. Blaire laughs and says her goodbye.

“Hope you have a good night Buddie!”

It is currently 2 am and there is no one to be seen on the streets. It’s dark so she decides to take a taxi instead of walking home as she usually does. She sits in the taxi as soon as the taxi arrives and decides to stop by the convenience store near her apartment so she can restock her refrigerator which has been empty for days now.

She arrives at the store and buys some vegetables, snacks, and drinks. After paying for all those things when she walks outside the store, she is just confused as she cannot find the taxi anywhere.

“ Where did he go? Maybe there was an emergency so he just left but he should at least have taken the fare before leaving,” Mariah thinks to herself.

She decides to walk as she’s just 5 minutes away from home. She’s thinking about his day today on the way and how she was glad to witness a triplet delivery today. She had delivered twins before but never in her life had she seen triplets.

As she’s thinking, she hears a man groan by the side of the road. She thinks that he’s drunk. But when she takes a closer look, she sees a man bleeding. A lot. And when you see a person bleeding that much, its not a good sign at all. She rushes towards him. She sees a young man with a handsome face. He’s tall and has brown hair with light brown eyes. Brown is not a rare color but there was something in his eyes that made him different. Any girl would fall for him instantly but right now he’s bleeding as hell and now is not the time to worship his beauty. Mariah as a doctor had to make sure he’s okay.

“Sir! Excuse me Sir! Can you hear me? ” Mariah asks to make sure he’s conscious but he has lost a lot of blood and is too injured to speak.

She examines his body to find the bleeding site. She tears his shirt and is shocked to see a bullet wound in his abdomen. All that blood came from the bullet present in his abdomen.

Mariah hasn’t seen a bullet wound before but she knows she has to do something before he goes into cardiac arrest due to blood loss. She quickly takes her scarf that was wrapped around her neck and tried to stop the bleeding by pushing it hard against the injured area. Then she takes her phone out and calls for an ambulance right away.

“It’s going to be okay! You’ll be fine. Just stay with me, okay? Just stay with me!” Mariah takes breaths heavily as he sees the man groan in pain.

But shortly after, she notices the man can’t breathe properly as there is not enough blood being pumped by his heart and is going under cardiac arrest. This is what she feared the most and there’s no one around to help her. She screams for help but no one’s around and the ambulance is taking too much time. She knows what she has to do. She starts performing CPR.

“Stay with me! You can’t die on me like this. You’re too young. You can’t die like this,” Mariah says as tears fall from her eyes onto his chest. After performing chest compressions for a while she sees that he has revived. The ambulance arrives at that exact moment and takes him to the hospital. Mariah goes along with them as she just can’t leave him like that.

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Two Days Later.

Adam opens his eyes and realizes that he is in a hospital. The reality struck him hard and he tried to get up but failed as he felt the stabbing pain in his abdomen. He starts recalling what had happened to him after he got shot by his rival’s man and how he had a car wreck. He had to run as his men still chased him. Adam remembers fainting after he had dodged them. But then he suddenly remembers the girl who performed CPR on him as he was bleeding to death.

He does not know for how long he has been in this hospital so he calls for a nurse and asks what had happened. When she tells him that he had been here for two days Adam loses his control. He can’t be here. What if someone knew that he survived? What if Ariak knew he survived and was here at a local hospital? He would do anything to kill him.

“Do you want me to call someone from your family? Dr.Mariah found you on the street and she was the one who saved you. But we weren’t able to find any of your belongings so we were couldn’t contact anyone from your side,” the nurse explains. “Dr.Mariah has been the one checking up on you for two days. Let me page her to let her know that you’re awake.”

‘I don’t have time for this. I need to get back to Mason so he knows that I’m alive and not dead’. Adam thinks to himself.

The nurse walks outside the door and Adam does not waste any time. He gets up clenching his stomach due to the pain but he endures it. 'Sorry Dr.Whoever saved my life but I need to get out of here right now.' Adam leaves without getting caught by anyone. He’s a mafia boss for a reason.

Mariah opens the door to Adam’s room but finds no one there. The room's empty. Adam left without meeting her.

“Guess he just left without saying goodbye and now I’ll never know his name or why he got shot,” Mariah sighs. “But at least I know he’s fine now.”

Adam’s back in his mansion and he’s furious. Someone tried to kill him. Adam has a lot of enemies and it was not a big deal that someone tried to kill him. But this time, he almost died if it wasn’t for the doctor who saved him, he would have been long gone.

Adam was driving to one of the hotels he owned for a meeting but someone shot the tire of his car and he lost control of it. He was injured but the real trouble was caused when a few men came running towards the car so Adam got out immediately. He instantly knew that all of this was planned by someone. He started running as the men chased him.

His head got injured in the car wreck but he kept running but when he looked back to see of they’re still chasing him, he heard a gunshot and realized that one of them shot and the bullet went straight into his abdomen. It was not his first time getting shot.

He is a mafia boss and was used to getting shot but he didn’t have hid men nor did he have Mason who would have protected him. He was all alone and his vision was also not helping him in this situation due to his head injury still the bullet didn’t stop him from running and he hid himself under a car. Thankfully he dodged them and after the men had left, he came out and saw a convenience store nearby so he started walking towards it.

He had to call Mason to aware him of his situation but his cell phone and all his belongings were left in the car. He was just a few minutes away from the convenience store but he fainted on his way there due to too much blood loss.

After that he only remembered those pitch black eyes as deep as the ocean. Yes, he remembered those eyes and he was glad that he won’t be dying alone with no one by his side, it was a cold night but at least there was someone with him even if it was just a stranger. But he didn’t die as Mariah was there to save him and he woke up in the hospital and not in hell.

He’s alive and that is something to be feared. He’s a killing machine right now. No one can stop him now he’s capable of destroying anyone.

“I am going to kill whoever did this to you!” Mason grits his teeth in anger.

“No you won’t do that Mason as I am going to kill him myself,” Adam replies.

“But first we need to know who it was. Maybe it was Ariak. Maybe he is the one behind all this. That bastard!” Mason says in anger.

“ If he’s behind all this then I swear I am going to fucking end him this time”, Adam says furiously, slamming the glass of water in his on the floor.

Adam was not the same he is now. He had a normal life. His father kept him away from all the dirty work he did in mafia industry. He was loved by his parents and was great in academics. But everything changed when Ariak betrayed his father.

Ariak was Adam’s uncle but he was jealous. He was jealous of how much Adam’s father was feared by everyone. No one dared to speak in front of him. He wanted to be the greatest mafia in all of history so he tried to kill his father. He wanted to kill every single person he loved. And what happened 5 years ago, forced Adam to become the ruthless mafia he is now.

After fleeing from the hospital, Adam has been taking care of his own wounds and Mason has been busy in finding the person behind the incident.

Adam enters a beautiful room with wooden walls and floor. In the middle of the room is a hospital bed with a nurse beside it cleaning the area. Adam dismisses her and she leaves the room. Adam sits on the chair beside the bed and holds the hand of the person lying on the bed.

“I’m fine, father. Don’t worry, I won’t die until I get my revenge. This time I won’t hold back. I will kill him so mom can rest in peace and so you can be safe from your own brother.” Adam speaks but there was no reply.

Adam recalls the night, when his mom and dad went outside for a dinner but the breaks failed and the car fell down the hill. Five years ago, his mom died at the spot but his father survived with major head and spinal injuries. Adam was devastated when he was informed about the wreck.

He boarded the plane right away, left everything behind and never looked back again. He took on his father’s business as his father wasn’t able to walk, talk or even think due to the trauma. He was a as lifeless as a dead person. But Adam didn’t let anyone know that his father survived or else Ariak would have made sure to kill him time. Adam kept his father hidden from everyone.

Mason was the only who knew. He was the one who helped Adam to handle everything including grief. He was always there for him like he had for Adam’s father.

Mariah and Blaire stood behind Dr.Keith as he cut the ribbon for the inauguration of the new pediatrics department. It was of huge importance as there had been few to none hospitals for children in that area. Dr.Keith was the one who sponsored it. Everyone applauded as he cut the ribbon.

Media was present as well. The flashes of camera were all over the place. Everyone went inside to see the great new building. After the inauguration, Dr.Keith invited the staff for a party at his mansion. Mariah and Blaire had also been invited to the grand party. Mariah didn’t want to go but Dr.Ketih convinced her. They had a strong bond as Mariah thought of Dr.Keith as her father. He always supported her.

Mariah got dressed and left for the party. She was stunned to see Dr.Keith’s beautiful mansion. She entered the mansion and met Blaire. They met other staff as well and were having a great time. Mariah needed to go to the washroom so she asked one of the waiters and he told her that it was upstairs. So she gave her cell phone to Blaire and excused herself.

Adam was not able to find Ariak’s location and he knew there was only one person who knew where he was. So he gathered his men and went looking for him. Mason stopped him as he thought Adam was still not in the condition to fight due to his previous injuries. But Adam was enraged and Mason knew he wouldn’t listen to anyone. They arrived at his mansion and saw that a party had been going on.

“The partie’s over people. Go home now,” Mason yelled. But when people ignored his call he took out his gun and fired into the sky which made everyone scream.

“Told ya! You should have listened to me the first time. You’re the one screaming now,” Mason laughs.

Everyone ran out of the mansion screaming and scared for their life. Dr.Keith was respected by everyone but no one knew how he had made this luxurious mansion. From where he got all that money to build a pediatrics department.

People had no idea that he was secretly working for a mafia gang. Ariak’s mafia gang. He knew no one would doubt him but there was more to him. He wanted power so he did all his dirty work under the radar.

Keith was standing in the middle of the stairway holding a gun as he knew Adam would eventually come looking for him.

“Where’s Ariak?” Adam asks in anger.

“Do you think I’ll tell you that easily,” Keith laughs.

“We’ll let you go. We don’t have to do this. Just tell us where he is!” Mason replies.

“Oh eventually you’ll have to let me go. You can’t hurt me. And he won’t stop at any cost. He is planning something bigger than you can ever imagine,” Keith grins which makes Adam lose his mind.

Adam points a gun at him and puts his finger on the trigger as he is more than capable of hurting him and Keith knew that Adam was famous for being ruthless. Keith looks to his left and sees Mariah approaching him.

“What are you doing here Dr.Keith? You should be downstairs entertaining your guests,” Mariah says smiling at him but her smile disappears as soon as she sees a gun in his hand. Keith grabs Mariah from her neck and holds the gun against her head.

“Let me go or else I’ll kill her,” Keith yells. His hands trembling with fear.

Mariah is terrified. She’s too scared to speak, not because of the gun against her head but because the one holding it is the person she trusted the most. Tears start falling from her eyes. She can see men holding guns pointed towards her direction.

She doesn’t know what to do or what to say. But then her eyes lay on the man standing downstairs and she realizes that he’s the one she saw on the road with the bullet in his abdomen, the man she helped and the man she had been taking care of for two days in the hospital as there was no one to take care of him because they were not able to contact any of his family members, the person who left without saying goodbye. Mariah remembered all her patients and Adam was the one she found by miracle at the right time and right place, how can she not recognize him. But at this moment she was at the wrong place at the wrong time and she couldn’t believe what she was seeing right now.

Adam on the other hand didn’t recognize her. How could he recognize her when she only saw her eyes while bleeding to death and all he knew was the name of the doctor but he didn’t know at this moment that she was Mariah. That she was the one who saved her.

The only thing Adam knew that the man standing beside him was the one who tried to kill him. He knew Ariak was the one who told Keith to send his men to kill Adam. But never in his wildest dreams Adam and Mariah would’ve thought of meeting each other like this. But they met again as they were meant to. The destiny brought them together.